Monsanto Cats.

They strap fifty cats with GPS and cameras to see what they get up to. They find they have territories, fight for them, hunt and sleep. Cats are part domesticated and part instinctual merciless hunters. OK we know that but what about humans? Today Juliemouse posted articles about aspertame and Lasso. Aspertame is an artificial sweetener used in Diet Coke etc widely accepted as causing a host of illnesses, and Lasso is Monsanto’s weed killer so toxic a whiff of the stuff will cause similar illnesses and a higher dose, death. So what merciless instincts do we have? For sure we once had the daily choice between killing and starvation and its concomitant thrill; and there’s nothing more thrilling than survival. But now like cats our daily bread and cat food requires nothing more thrilling than a walk around Tesco. Our murky world of instinct goes unsatisfied. So we find it in dangerous sports, the apprehension of performance and the combat of rhetoric. And some of us find it in the wheeler dealing cut and thrust of commerce. They are all ways to satisfy our merciless hunter instinct. Bankers, financiers, politicians and corporations producing spertame, Lasso, deep sea oil and now shale gas are all simply new ways to create the thrill of survival, and however we dress it up by our domesticated side as somehow a profit and loss account benefit to society that’s not the basic motivation. And as if to prove it their actions are truly merciless. They produce harmful chemicals, create wastelands and economic collapses that cause great harm to many people with zero active empathy for their plight and defend ruthlessly their right to continue doing it. This is not a theoretical debate, a matter of morality or an intellectual problem it’s the instinctual thrill of survival misplaced. We all need to satisfy that instinct, it’s life affirming, but in productive ways. So what’s it to be Monsanto, life by much good or life by much bad? Your choice.